Unrelated to this post, but take 2.5 minutes and enjoy this audio slideshow for an article in the 4/19 New Yorker magazine, a story of a family towing life written by Burkhard Bilger.

For an earlier post on the stone trade almost three years ago, click here. All today’s fotos come from Jed. Trident (ex-Delta Trident, Delta Eagle, and Libra built in 1982) is a new boat in the boro, I believe. I’m guessing she’s currently a sibling of Eastern Dawn (ex-Delta Mule).

Crushed rock . . . what building project could proceed with it? A major quarry is located upriver in Clinton Point; see the last foto here.